The Tatler; corrected from the originals, with a preface, historical and biographical, by A. Chalmers, Volume 5Alexander Chalmers 1817 |
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... late king William ; and I doubt not but their deaths will endear their families , which were ennobled by him , in your nation . Ge- neral Stanhope has been reported by the enemy dead of his wounds ; but he received only a slight ...
... late king William ; and I doubt not but their deaths will endear their families , which were ennobled by him , in your nation . Ge- neral Stanhope has been reported by the enemy dead of his wounds ; but he received only a slight ...
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... late crept in among the downright English a mighty spirit of dissimulation . But , be- fore we discourse of this vice , it will be necessary to observe , that the learned make a difference be- tween simulation and dissimulation ...
... late crept in among the downright English a mighty spirit of dissimulation . But , be- fore we discourse of this vice , it will be necessary to observe , that the learned make a difference be- tween simulation and dissimulation ...
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... late years ; in which , with unspeakable joy and satisfaction , I have seen our political weather returned to Settled Fair . I must only observe , that for all this last summer my Glass has pointed at Changeable . Upon the whole , No ...
... late years ; in which , with unspeakable joy and satisfaction , I have seen our political weather returned to Settled Fair . I must only observe , that for all this last summer my Glass has pointed at Changeable . Upon the whole , No ...
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... late received many packets of letters , complaining of these spread- ing evils . A lady who is lately arrived at the Bath acquaints me , there were in the stage - coach where- in she went down , a common flatterer , and a common jester ...
... late received many packets of letters , complaining of these spread- ing evils . A lady who is lately arrived at the Bath acquaints me , there were in the stage - coach where- in she went down , a common flatterer , and a common jester ...
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... late prevailed among the ladies so great an affectation of nakedness , that they have not only left the bosom wholly bare , but lowered their stays some inches below the former mode . " That , in particular , Mrs. Arabella Overdo has ...
... late prevailed among the ladies so great an affectation of nakedness , that they have not only left the bosom wholly bare , but lowered their stays some inches below the former mode . " That , in particular , Mrs. Arabella Overdo has ...
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Page 38 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 123 - So saying, on he led his radiant files, Dazzling the moon; these to the bower direct In search of whom they sought : him there they found Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve, Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions as he list, phantasms and dreams...
Page 128 - That swill'd more liquor than it could contain, And, like a drunkard, gives it up again. Brisk Susan whips her linen from the rope, While the first drizzling...
Page 128 - tis fair, yet seems to call a coach. The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. Here various kinds by various fortunes led, Commence acquaintance underneath a shed. Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.
Page 177 - But in the beginning of my sixth year, to my unspeakable grief, I fell into the hands of a miserable old fellow, who clapped me into an iron chest, where I found five hundred more of my own quality who lay under the same confinement. The only relief we had, was to be taken out, and counted over in the fresh air every morning and evening. After an imprisonment of several years, we heard somebody knocking at our chest, and breaking it open with a hammer.
Page 203 - At about half a mile's distance from our cabin, we heard the groanings of a bear, which at first startled us ; but upon inquiry, we were informed by some of our company, that he was dead, and now lay in salt, having been killed upon that very spot about a fortnight before, in the time of the frost.
Page 93 - Gothic strain, and a natural tendency towards relapsing into barbarity, which delights in monosyllables and uniting of mute consonants, as it is observable in all the northern languages. And this is still more visible in the next refinement, which consists in pronouncing the first syllable in a word that has many, and dismissing the rest, such as Phizz, Hipps, Mob, Pozz, Rep, and many more, when we are already overloaded with monosyllables, which are the disgrace of our language.
Page 129 - Now from all parts the swelling kennels flow, And bear their trophies with them as they go: Filth of all hues and odours, seem to tell What street they sailed from, by their sight and smell.
Page 178 - The apothecary gave me to an herb-woman, the herb-woman to a butcher, the butcher to a brewer, and the brewer to his wife, who made a present of me to a nonconformist preacher. After this manner I made my way merrily through the world ; for, as I told you before, we shillings love nothing so much as travelling. I sometimes fetched in a shoulder of mutton, sometimes a play-book, and often had the satisfaction to treat a Templar at a twelvepenny ordinary, or carry him, with three friends, to Westminster...
Page 59 - Love his golden shafts imploys, here lights His constant Lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels; not in the bought smile...